[Imports] Importing Beirut building data

[Paul Norman]

On 4/28/2017 6:35 AM, Majd Al-shihabi wrote:
>
> Through our network, we found out that a group at the American 
> University of Beirut called The Neighbourhood Initiative (AUB-NI) has 
> done a survey of all of the buildings in the city. The data can be 
> viewed here 
> <https://scholarworks.aub.edu.lb/handle/10938/10283?show=full>. As far 
> as I understand (and of course i'm not a legal expert), the license on 
> the data from the AUB-NI is not incompatible with the Open Database 
> License. In any case, my understanding is that they got the data 
> freely from the municipality.

The license on that page is for non-commercial use only. Because it 
discriminates by field of use, it's not an open license and cannot be 
used as a data source by OSM. Before doing any other work on the import, 
I'd see if you have a chance at getting them to release the data under a 
different license. If you don't, there's no point to doing other work on it.
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